Incantare performs lush instrumental works for three trombones, two violins, and organ by Rossi, Buonamente, Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Castello, and others. 1:30 Pre-Concert Lecture 2:00 Concert with special guests Cynthia Black, violin Naomi Gregory, organ

This annual concert celebrates the collective virtuosity, talent, and teamwork of artistic directors Andrew Fouts, Patricia Halverson, and Scott Pauley as they continue their boundless exploration of intimate chamber music from the Baroque and beyond. Highlights include stylus fantasticus sonatas of Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, elegant dance suites of Philip Heinrich Erlebach and …

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BOECKMAN & BACH Discover the unique sounds of a 1740 Lautenwerck (gut-strung harpsichord) as Seattle's own recorder virtuoso Vicki Boeckman and historical keyboardist Tamara Friedman explore solo and chamber music of J. S. Bach as well as a Sturm und Drang keyboard sonata by his son C. P. E. Bach, and three delightful Fantasies for …

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Critically acclaimed fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout makes his H+H directorial debut in Beethoven’s dramatic Third Piano Concerto. You’ll hear the composer speak from the heart, only now in a bold new voice. Soloist and orchestra recreate this new voice with their trademark sound that’s as astonishing today as it was in the creator’s day. Taking inspiration …

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San Francisco’s free-spirited Baroque band returns to the Pacific Northwest for a musical family reunion featuring virtuosic chamber works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emmanuel, and Johann Christoph Friedrich, each taking the ideas learned from their father in unique and brilliant directions.

Since their arrival in New Orleans in 1727, the Sisters of St. Ursula have taught and cared for the inhabitants of that most European of American cities without ceasing. A music manuscript in their library remains the only surviving example of music from Louisiana’s colonial period, and is a rare example of French baroque music …

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Ensemble Affect, Chicago's newest early music group, presents a variety of English love songs, performed in the beautiful Indian Boundary Park cultural center. Composers such as Dowland, Holborn, and everyone’s favorite, Pachelbel, will be featured along with soprano Hannah Dixon.  

David Greenberg, baroque violinist and Cape Breton-style fiddler extraordinaire, joins Musica Pacifica for a program of exciting 18th-century Scottish traditional and baroque music. In this high-energy, foot-tapping program, Cape Breton’s driving strathspeys and reels, soulful airs and merry jigs are heard alongside more studied compositions of Purcell, Barsanti, and Matteis and The Division Violin. The music …

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Join us for our 40th Season Winter Musicale! All who donate $125 or more to our 2020 summer season fund drive before February 16 are welcome to attend as a thank you from our Festival. Ways to give and full event details are at our website: bmf-cdm.org/support-us The one-hour private concert will feature a grand …

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San Francisco’s free-spirited Baroque band returns to the Pacific Northwest for a musical family reunion featuring virtuosic chamber works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emmanuel, and Johann Christoph Friedrich, each taking the ideas learned from their father in unique and brilliant directions.

The Eisenstadt Trio (Elizabeth Field, violin; Stephanie Vial, cello; Andrew Willis, fortepiano) presents a program of trios by Wagenseil (Divertimento in D major), Haydn (12 in e minor, 18 in A major) and Beethoven (Op. 1/3 in c minor)

The Eisenstadt Trio (Elizabeth Field, violin; Stephanie Vial, cello; Andrew Willis, fortepiano) presents a program of trios by Wagenseil (Divertimento in D major), Haydn (12 in e minor, 18 in A major) and Beethoven (Op. 1/3 in c minor)

Relax after a hectic week with the Bach Collegium Instrumentalists. Then stay for the Dessert Reception following the concert.

Spanish Baroque Zarzuela by Sebastián Durón  The Spanish court from which this zarzuela comes, attracted the best European composers, and while admiring both Italian and French trends, it did not copy them.  Audiences admired the long declamations and soliloquies which pause the action.  Durón maintained them allowing only the occasional Italian operatic recitative to add …

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The Westminster Organ Concert Series celebrates forty years of concerts with a special anniversary concert on Friday, February 21, at 7:30 pm. Zephyrus Early Music Vocal Ensemble, directed by Megan Sharp, presents “Lutheran Choral Vespers: The Reformation in the Renaissance,” a program that reconstructs a vespers service from northern Germany in the early seventeenth century. …

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Spanish Baroque Zarzuela by Sebastián Durón  The Spanish court from which this zarzuela comes, attracted the best European composers, and while admiring both Italian and French trends, it did not copy them.  Audiences admired the long declamations and soliloquies which pause the action.  Durón maintained them allowing only the occasional Italian operatic recitative to add …

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A program exploring how Esperance (Hope) teaches the courtly lover to endure the suffering caused by Desire and find delight in the sweet life of Love. Music by Machaut, Galiot, Solage & others, including a complex of interrelated pieces connecting Machaut’s Remede de Fortune to a handful of works in the hypnotic, late 14th-century style …

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